Usually means: Plunged into water headfirst downward.
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  1. dived: Merriam-Webster
  2. dived: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dived: Collins English Dictionary
  4. dived: Vocabulary.com
  5. Dived, dived: Wordnik
  6. dived: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. dived: Wiktionary
  8. Dived, dived: Dictionary.com
  9. dived: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Dived: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Dived: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. dived: FreeDictionary.org
  13. dived: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. dived: Encyclopedia

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  1. dived: Idioms

(Note: See dive as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (dive)

verb:  (intransitive) To swim under water.
verb:  (intransitive) To jump into water head-first.
verb:  (intransitive) To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.
verb:  (intransitive) To descend sharply or steeply.
verb:  (intransitive) To lose altitude quickly by pointing downwards, as with a bird or aircraft.
verb:  (intransitive, especially with in) To undertake with enthusiasm.
verb:  (sports) To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
verb:  (transitive) To explore by diving; to plunge into.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.
noun:  A jump or plunge into water.
noun:  A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance.
noun:  A downward swooping motion.
noun:  A swim under water.
noun:  A decline.
noun:  (slang) A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.
noun:  (aviation) Aerial descent with the nose pointed down.
noun:  (sports) A deliberate fall after a challenge.
noun:  Obsolete form of daeva. [(Zoroastrianism) A supernatural entity of disagreeable nature, usually considered as a demon.]
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